NAIA Volleyball Player of the Week – No. 8

Maher wins national award during the same week she posts 1,000th-career kill

October 29, 2013

By Chad Waller, Director of Communications and Sports Information

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Caraline Maher of Georgetown (Ky.) has been named the NAIA Volleyball National Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Maher was selected based on her performances from Oct. 21 - 27 and was chosen out of a pool of conference player of the week selections among 23 conferences and independents.

Maher, a 6-foot-0 junior middle hitter from Cincinnati, Ohio, posted four matches of 10-or-more kills in a 4-1 week for the Tigers. She tallied a week-best 16 kills, to go along with six digs and a .433 hitting percentage in a 3-1 win (25-17, 25-18, 17-25, 25-19) against then-No. 13 Bellevue (Neb.) on Oct. 26. In Georgetown's other Top-25 win, Maher finished with 14 kills and a .500 attack percentage in the 3-0 sweep (25-18, 25-21, 25-11) of then-No. 10 Embry-Riddle (Fla.) on the same day. In the only loss of the week to No. 1 Texas at Brownsville on Oct. 25, Maher recorded her 1,000th career kill. Overall, she averaged 3.50 kills, 1.00 digs and totaled 18 blocks (13 assists) in 18 total sets. Maher ranks ninth in the NAIA in hitting percentage (.394).

This is the first Volleyball Player of the Week for Georgetown since Week 3 of the 2009 season.

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